Worth

WILLIAM JENKINS, (wurth,) an American general, B. in Columbia co., N. Y., in 1794. After serving in the war of 1812, and in the Florid an campaigns of 1841-2, he became brigadier - general, and was made major-general in requital of his distinguished services during the war with Mexico, 1846-7. D. 1849. Worth, in Georgia, a S.W. co.; area, 700 sq. m.; C. Isabella. Pop. 3,778.-In Iowa, a N. co., adjoining Minnesota; area, 430 sq. m.; C. Bristol. Pop. 2,892. In Mi ouri, aN. co.; area, 295 sq. m.; C. Grant City. Pop. 5,684. England, co. Su ex, on the English Channel, 11 m. W. of Brighton. Pop. 10,854. Woulfe's Apparatus. (From the inventor Woulfe, an English chemist, D. 1806. (Chem.) A very useful apparatus, consisting e entially of one or more bottles, each having two or three necks (Fig. 692); and is used for impregnating water and other fluids with vapors and gases. When the apparatus is employed, a retort or other ve el, for heating the materials, is connected by means of a bent tube with one of Woulfe's bottles. If more than one of these bottles are required, they are ranged side by side, and are connected with each other Fig. 692.-wOULFE'S APPARATUS. by tubes, each of which proceeds from the upper part of one bottle to the bottom of the liquid in the next, the centre neck of each bottle, if it have three necks, being closed either with a solid cork, and if nece ary lu ted, or with a cork in which is inserted a safety-tube, that pa es down through it, and dips in the liquid at the bottom. This tube allows the elastic fluid, if generated in too large quantity, to escape into the atmosphere; while, in ordinary circumstances, as it dips into a liquid, they are unable to pa off. Every part of the apparatus is air-tight, except the extremity farthest from the retort, so that every particle of vapor or gas has to traverse the whole series of ve els, and to pa through the liquid in every one of the bottles, before it escapes into the air; and thus, if at all condensable by the liquid used, can hardly escape condensation. [s. 968]